Rotate Via Script Maintaining Other DrawMethod Settings?

[MatMan]

How can I Rotate a entity without manipulating all other drawmethod settings via script.

The problem I'm having is that I don't know how to get the entities current settings (flip,scale etc..) so that I can just rotate the entity.

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void entityrotate(void entity, float angle)
{
  //Matman V 0.01
    //setdrawmethod(entity, int flag, int scalex, int scaley, int flipx, int flipy, int shiftx, int alpha, int remap, int fillcolor, int rotate, int fliprotate, int transparencybg, pointer colormap)
    setdrawmethod( entity,
                        1,
                   getentityproperty(entity, "DRAWMETHOD","scalex"),//doesn't work
                   getentityproperty(entity, "DRAWMETHOD","scaley"),
                   getentityproperty(entity, "DRAWMETHOD","flipx"),
                   getentityproperty(entity, "DRAWMETHOD","flipy"),
                   getentityproperty(entity, "DRAWMETHOD","shiftx"),
                   getentityproperty(entity, "DRAWMETHOD","alpha"),
                   getentityproperty(entity, "DRAWMETHOD","remap"),
                   getentityproperty(entity, "DRAWMETHOD","fillcolor"),
                   angle
                    );
  return entity;
}


[Damon Caskey]

AFAIK there is still no way to get a current drawmethod property (except for the remap and color tables). Just like you'll see in my draw functions, if you need the old value later you're going to have to store it in a variable.

On the plus side, a recent addition does allow changing of drawmethod properties individually:

changedrawmethod({entity}, {property name}, {value})

"alpha,
"amplitude"
"beginsize"
"centerx"
"centery"
"enabled"
"endsize"
"fillcolor"
"flag"
"fliprotate"
"flipx"
"perspective"
"remap"
"reset"
"rotate"
"scalex"
"scaley"
"shiftx"
"table"
"transbg"
"watermode"
"wavelength"
"wavespeed"
"wavetime"
"xrepeat"
"xspan"
"yrepeat"
"yspan"

DC

[MatMan]

Thanx for that, very usefull

Another Q. It appears that the attack box doesn't rotate with the image, is it suppose to be like this or is it a Missing feature?

You can see it in this video Here with the fireball (rotated at 45) that angles downward.